NORWICH – After 10 days in jail, the former operators of Hand’s Inn restaurant were released so they can make restitution payments.

Kevin Aguilar and Jean Rabbitt were remanded without bail by County Judge W. Howard Sullivan on June 16 after they failed to explain missed restitution payments that the judge ordered late last year as part of their sentence. The couple was to make $500-a-month installments to different victims in a 2003 credit card scheme they operated from their city limits restaurant. The couple appeared in court June 26 with attorney Maureen Byrne, who argued that her clients did not make the payments due to a lack of clarity in their order to make them.

“It appears they have made their payments according to schedule,” she said.